Ice-cream cone and protector therefor.



ICE CREAM GONE AND PROTECTOR THEREFOR. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 2a, 1913.

1,0943427. I Patented Apr. 28, 1914,

JAMES A. COOK, OF EAST BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS.

ICE-CREAM CONE AND PROTECTOR THEREFOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 28, 1914..

Application filed June 26, 1913. Serial No. 775,898.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES A. CooK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of East Bridgewater, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts,'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice-Cream Cones and Protectors T herefor, of which the fication.

This invention relates to edible cones used Y to hold portions of ice cream. while the same is being eaten, the cone being eatab-le with its contents.

The invention has for its object to provide a sanitary.cone protector to protect the entireexternal surface of the cone so that the fingers of the party who fillsthe cone, as well as those of the party who consumes it, cannot touch the cone, and further, so that the cone when in storage is protected to a considerable extent against dampness and kept in a. crisp brittle condition, and protected to a large extent against flies when displayed for sale, the nature of the protecting medium being such that it does not interfere with the convenient consumptlon of the cone and its contents.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 represents aperspective View of a pro tected ice cream cone embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a plan view of the blank from which the cone protector is made. Fig. 3 represents a view similar to a portion of Fig. 1, showing the protector partly torn away. Fig. i represents an enlarged sectional dew of the upper end portions of two protected cones nested together for storage and shipment.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings 12' represents an edible ice cream cone which is preferably provided with ribs 13 on its external surface.

14 represents a protector made from a I blank 14 of thin waterproof paper. Said paper.

blank is preferably of trapezoidal form and may be made of ordinary parafiin or wax One of the inclined edges of the blank is caused to overlap the other inclinededge, and the contacting port-ions are cemented together to form a substantially conical protector. I prefer, however, to leave following is a specij the smaller end of the protector open so that dust or other matter may be forced through the smaller end.

The protector 14 is formed to cover the cone 13 substantially from end to end, so that the exterior of the cone is protected against contact with the fingers of a person handling it, the protector bearing against the ribs 13, as shown by Fig. 4, and being adapted to be pressed inwardly into the spaces between said ribs.

The operation of bending the blank 14: causes the longer of the two parallel edges to form a month which is inclined relatively to the longitudinal center of the protector, one side of said mouth being extended to form a flexible'lip or extension 14", adapted to project above the mouth of the cone, as shown by Fig. 1. Said extension is also adapted to be bent inwardly over the edge of the cone 12 so that when protected cones are nested as shown by Fig. 4, the extension 14 forms a part of a protective packing between two cones, and also serves to prevent 1 panying' cone 12 by the operation of pulling the. nested cones apart;

efore the cone is filled, the extension 14" is returned to the position shown by Fig. 1, and serves as a tearing handle by which the consumer may commence the operation of tearing away the protector spirally to expose difi'erent portions of the cone for consumption,- I have discovered that when the protectoris adjusted as shown by Fig. 1, the consumer can easily tear the protector spirally from end to end by grasping the extension 14" and tearing the protector from the point a! to and beyond the point y until the protector is converted into a spiral ribbon, there being little or no liability of tearing the protector into separate pieces, or in other words, of entirely detaching from the protector the tongue 14 (Fig. 3) formed at the commencement of the tearing operation. This tendency of the protector to tear spirally may be increased by forming the parallel edges of the blank 1 1 at an angle to the direction in which the fibers of the paper extend, as indicated by F ig. 2, where the arrow shows the direction of the fibers and therefore the direction of minimum resistance to a tearing strain. Theblank may be scored or weakened as indicated by dotted brlttle.

by Let- What I claim and desire to secure ters Patent is 1. A hollow edible cone provided with a conical protector of thin paper covering the cone substantially from end to end and adapted to be torn to successively expose different portions of the cone, said protector having an extension at one side of its larger end adapted to be bent inwardly over the upper end of the cone and to-be withdrawn therefrom to serve as a tearing handle.

2. As an article of manufacture a cone protector, composed of a hollow. cone of thin paper formed to cover substantially the entire external surface of the cone and adapted to be torn progressively from its huge!- end "downwardly.

3. As an article of manufacture :1 cone protector, composed of a hollow cone of thin paper formed to cover substantially the entire external surface of the coneand adapted-to be torn progressively from its larger end downwardly, said protector having a fiegible extension at one side of its larger en 4. As an article of manufacture a cone protector, composed of a blank of thin paper having a minimum resistance to tearing strain in one direction and formed into a hollow cone, the axis of which is transverse to the direction of said minimum resistance.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES A. COOK.

\Vitnesss C. F. BROWN, P.. W. PEZZETTI. 

